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Road Safety Deniz Huseyin
LTT858 29 November 2022
20mph limits have ‘little impact on crashes, casualties or driver speed’
Restricting speed limits to 20mph in town and city centres does not seem to reduce road traffic collisions, casualties, or driver speed, a study by Queen’s University Belfast has concluded.
Over a three-year period, researchers drew on data for road traffic collisions, casualties, driver speed and traffic volume in Belfast, before, and one and three years after 20mph speed limits were introduced in 2016 in 76 streets in the city centre.
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